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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Email Lottery <email_lottery_coordinator@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 31 Mar 2007 15:27:01 -0000
Subject: Your Email Won.(2007Easther Bonanza)

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




The Marina Offices,

St Peters Yacht Basin,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE6 1HX England

(Customer Services)



Dear email address owner,



The draw of the EMAIL LOTTERY??. online Sweepstakes

International Program held on 30th March 2007, won you the Lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus. The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are getting the FINAL notification as regards this Email.



Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 2, 9, 19, 29, 45,55, By our computer draw system, which subsequently won you the lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery??).Because your email was attached to our winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED as one of the draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim:a total sum of ??1,666,667 (ONE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX THOUSAND,SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN Pounds Sterlings) in CASH credited to file number ; KTU/9023118308/03. and Draw Number:1080.01.The UK NATIONAL LOTTERY?? and the EURO MILLIONS??, are the richest Lottery Agencies in the whole

world.The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery??) All participants for the Email Lottery (e-Lottery??) were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email Lottery Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.



This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 (The ??1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).Other sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket sales, Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.



Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning, your email was selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery??) randomly.Your ??1,666,667, will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.



Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. Claiming your money is Easy and Safe.



For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and till your money is transferred to you in your country.



This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the information below:



FIDUCIARY AGENT

Name: Mr. James Peterson

Tel : +44-702-402-3334

Email: emaillotterysubmit@yahoo.co.uk



Complete the below form and summit it to :

emaillotterysubmit@yahoo.co.uk



( 1 ) YOUR FULL NAMES: .................

( 2 ) YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:..............

( 3 ) YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS: .............

( 4 ) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:.........

( 5 ) YOUR AGE:..................

( 6 ) YOUR COUNTRY: ................

( 7 ) LANGUAGE: .......................

( 8 ) YOUR OCCUPATION: ....................

( 9 ) HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY BEFORE:..........

( 10 ) HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:..........



MODE OF COLLECTION



(1) BANK TO BANK TRANSFER.

(2) COURIER SYSTEM.



Please make sure you indicate your choice of collection to enable easy and fast delivery.



Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY??.



Yours faithfully,

Darryn Clarke(Mrs)

Online coordinator EMAIL LOTTERY



Sweepstakes International Program ?? Copyright 2007







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